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Question

Failed system restore. Files are still there, but hidden?

Dec 6, 2011 9:26AM PST

Hi Cnet. I am in desperate need of your help.

I was in the middle of a system restore on my laptop when my ac adapter came unplugged(bad/dead battery), so my laptop shut off instantly. When I restarted it, Windows can't find my files. For instance if I try to open a folder that has music, it says "'this folder is empty". But when I right click-properties each folder...it still says "Size-39mb...Contains -16files" etc. It does this to every folder except for the couple on my desktop. I know all of my stuff is still there, but for some reason Windows doesn't show them. C-drive only has 6gb free of 99gb.
I hope someone knows how to fix this mess. Thank you in advance!
-Jeremiah

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Dec 6, 2011 9:37AM PST

The files are on your backups. But this is how most learn why folk talk and write so much about keeping a copy of what we can't lose.

Since Windows is still working I want to ask WHY WERE YOU RUNNING SYSTEM RESTORE?

And yes we have software that might help, but there is some malware that hides files. Maybe these softwares are not the right answer. Let's hear why first.
Bob

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Thanks for the quick response.
Dec 6, 2011 10:00AM PST

IE updated and would crash randomly.

"The files on are your backups." I'm a computer **** and don't know what that means. How do I access these so I can put them all on my external and set this thing back to day1? I used to back almost everything up on my external, but I moved and thought my external was lost, found it a few months later and was just too lazy to catch up on it.

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The malware I noted would crash IE.
Dec 6, 2011 10:23AM PST
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Dec 7, 2011 3:40PM PST

this also happen to me but i just look my my drive and show folders that is on hidden.

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Re: happened to me also
Dec 7, 2011 3:54PM PST

You mean a power loss during a system restore? And what exactly is the current situation?

Kees